Northwest Explorer
Haunted History: Exploring Kitsap’s Most Haunted House
Episode 48 | 5m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
SPONSORED: Join Angela and Paranormal Pete as they explore Port Gamble’s haunted history.
SPONSORED: Join Angela and Paranormal Pete as they explore Port Gamble’s haunted history. From the Historic Museum to the mysterious Walker-Ames House, uncover eerie stories, ghostly encounters, and the lingering echoes of the past that make this charming town a paranormal hotspot.
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Northwest Explorer is a local public television program presented by Cascade PBS
Northwest Explorer
Haunted History: Exploring Kitsap’s Most Haunted House
Episode 48 | 5m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
SPONSORED: Join Angela and Paranormal Pete as they explore Port Gamble’s haunted history. From the Historic Museum to the mysterious Walker-Ames House, uncover eerie stories, ghostly encounters, and the lingering echoes of the past that make this charming town a paranormal hotspot.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWelcome to Port Gamble, Washington's most haunted town and the perfect place to meet the man who knows its spirits best.
Pete.
Paranormal Pete.
We're here at the Port Gamble general store with Paranormal Pete.
Pete, why are we here?
Well, we're here at the Port Gamble general store and Cafe be.. of the center of activity for the town.
But it also could be the center of paranormal activity down in the basement.
Oh, can we go check it out?
Let's go check it out.
Let's do it.
Okay, we're going in.
That is the Puget Hotel.
No longer standing in Port Gamble.
This is another story, though.
We're at one of the hearts of paranormal activity in the museum at the Puget Hotel exhibit here, where you get disembodied voices, disembodied sounds of paper being crumpled up or books opening and closing.
And we also have a shadowy figure that seems to pass by here, only verified by the use of electromagnetic field meters and witnessing shadows and movement and sounds of footsteps.
[Footsteps] Don't worry, that one was just me.
This is the Port Gamble Theater, which is really important for a couple of reasons.
Let's check it out.
Oh, yeah.
This has got t.. The theater was built in 1906 and originally did vaudevillian type productions, later showing movies up until about 1956.
One of the cool things about this theater is, yes, it is haunted with reported activity, but we also hold the oldest ghost conference on the West Coast here every November.
What is the most haunted part of the town?
The most haunted part of the town is across the street at the Walker Ames House.
We're here at the Walker Ames House.
But I want you to note that I'm going to be introducing us as we move through the house, because we feel like people still live here.
And so we're just being respectful by announcing ourselves.
Come on in.
Hello.
It's Pete.
You know me pretty well.
I’ve got some friends with me here today, and we're just here to take a tour and say hello.
This is a legit attic.
It sure is.
It's good size.
And we have quite a bit of activity up here as well.
The house maid who doubled as a nanny would have lived in this room right here.
And we believe kids were sent up here when guests were in the house to play.
You hear children's voices, you may see toys move, things like that.
So one of my most intense stories... experiences I had was right here.
I had a private tour group of about ten people.
I was standing where I am here, and everyone else was across the room.
I'm giving kind of the history of the home.
We hear a scuffle noise from behind me.
So I turn with my flashlight naturally to see what the noise was to find.
There was a woman standing right here behind me, and she cast a shadow on the wall and the whole group, including myself, gasped.
And as soon as we gasped, she disappeared.
Needless to say, the tour was over.
Yeah, everyone wanted to leave.
I don't blame them, but that was one of my most memorable experiences.
Here was full body apparition right next to me.
All right, so how does this thing work?
Well, you're holding an electric magnetic field meter, and we use these in the paranormal to try and identify manmade sources of electromagnetic field: wiring, light fixtures, plugs in the wall.
If you come across a signal and can identify, it's a light switch or something, that's fine.
But if you get a signal and you can't explain it or it just vanishes it could be paranormal.
Well, Angela, I don't know if you want to go down there.
That's the basement.
And there's a long history of someone pull.. So I don't know if you want to go down there or not.
Let's do it.
I think we should try it out.
All right, let's do it.
So, Angela, one thing to pay attention to is how your body feels when you're going through places like this.
If you've ever stood near power lines or a large source of electronic energy, however that made your body feel is probably how your bod.. Who are the toys for?
So there's believed to be children's spirits in the home and specifically in the basement.
There's been a boy spirit that's been known to be down here.
And so for many years now, investigators leave an offering for him.
Just to say hi and thank you.
And thanks for letting us be here.
I think I'm getting something here.
Oh yeah.
Yep.
Oh yeah.
You're picking up a .. Well these really old cast iron radiant heaters are known to give off an electromagnetic field signature kind of giving a false positive in a sense.
And so it's interesting they do that.
But, something we always want to notate.
Yeah, definitely.
Wow.
Well, I'm Angela.
This has been awesome.
Thank you for expl.. And if you're a ghost, thanks for playing along.
I'll see you.
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